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by tangent128 11y ago
Dictionary definitions inherently lag behind practical usage; I would have no problem classifying harassment as a non-physical class of violence. Especially given cases where it can be more damaging to a person than physical assaults agains
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by tangent128 11y ago
Looking at their comment history, "trolling" is a safe bet. And I would assume anybody accusing the man(ual) command of being gendered is being disingenuous until proven otherwise. (That said, growing up in the American South, I&#
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by tangent128 11y ago
Which is why the getrandom() syscall is preferred; it draws from the urandom pool, but will block until a quantity of initial entropy has been fed into the pool (ie, at early boot).
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by tangent128 11y ago
The "default" stateless auto-configuration uses the MAC for the "public" address, yes, but also has provisions for assigning the interface a temporary random address that can be used for outgoing connections. See RFC 304
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by tangent128 11y ago
If I read it right, the magnetic field does not "disperse" through the channel; it's as strong at the exit as at the entrance. It's not a shortcut in the speed-of-light sense, but it does appear to change the topology of
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by tangent128 11y ago
I don't think you have to sacrifice a meaningful key comment to make this work; "MYMH_user_DONOTMODIFYTHISCOMMENT_onetime0" is already on the key's line as part of the sed command that deletes the line with "MYMH_us
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by tangent128 11y ago
Even if you embrace a lower population target, you still have to deal with the billions of people already here. Enough people want to leave a biological legacy, so halving population each generation seems optimistic. (yes, many people don&#
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by tangent128 11y ago
On the matter of education, singular they is historically supported: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage_by_r...
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by tangent128 11y ago
Be advised that's an Onion article.
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by tangent128 11y ago
http://www.gobolinux.org/ has a fun filesystem layout experiment, at least.
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by tangent128 11y ago
If Javascript didn't have closures, then var's scoping rules would largely be academic. But in practice, there are many cases when I have to create multiple callbacks in a loop; half the time I forget that, in Javascript, declarin
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by tangent128 11y ago
"Hooks" like that is where the Lua language really shines.
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by tangent128 11y ago
If an economy is propped up by personal debt, things can (and have) exploded, yes. But when not fueled by personal debt, you generally want faster spending, so that potential productive capacity gets used instead of left sitting for lack of
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by tangent128 11y ago
From what I've read on the subject: Economically, you want to keep money flowing through the system as fast as possible. One dollar spent three times in a year contributes more to the economy than two dollars spent once. (I could imagi
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by tangent128 11y ago
On *nix systems, the #! is parsed by the kernel as a magic number. sh/bash are not involved.
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by tangent128 12y ago
I used essentially the same technique when coding an alternate reader for a long-running webcomic[1][2] With use of url hashes, you can even deep-link to specific scroll positions, allowing links to be shared sanely. As you have to know the